Around 11,300 years ago, a massive star teetered on the precipice of annihilation. It pulsed with energy as it expelled its outer layers, shedding the material into space. Eventually it exploded as a ...

A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins. At this very moment, ...

A novel astronomical event, termed a "superkilonova," is proposed to explain the coincident detection of gravitational waves (S250818k), indicating a subsolar-mass neutron star merger, and an ...